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A Quiet Corner of Ireland

Though l live in an area that is part of the ceremonial county of Lancashire I had not heard of this happening. For your information THE UK has ceremonial, historic, counties and administrative ones. The administrative . county in which I live ...

frankbeswick, on 03/26/2023

Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines

I have never heard of Cinderlad. Thanks.

frankbeswick, on 03/26/2023

A Quiet Corner of Ireland

Thank you! Internet sources include the article Small English Town OVERRUN by spiders -- OMG! It's thanks to the Wayback Machine that the article, from Nov. 14, 2016, still is accessible. The spiders may have spun 30-plus feet (9.14 meters) ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/25/2023

Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines

There's an Irish version of the Cinderella story. It's unusual in that it's about a cinderfellow (cinderfella?!) known as Cinderlad. Would that be known on your, eastern (Atlantic) pond side or would it just be an Irish American invention?

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/25/2023

Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster

Recent studies have found no catfish or surgeon dna in the loch,but plenty of eel dna. Conger is a possibility, but it would not have an easy journey from the sea. The situation in Loch Morar, which is very close. to the sea, is more conducive ...

frankbeswick, on 03/23/2023

A Quiet Corner of Ireland

Dictyna arundinacea. This is the only species with that type of web.

frankbeswick, on 03/23/2023

Loch Ness: new thinking about the monster

The catfish theory can be quite persuasive, particularly when couched in the early 20th-century sightings. Introduction in the 19th century by sport-loving men and oblivion in the 20th-century by world war-fighting men explains sightings between ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023

A Quiet Corner of Ireland

The last paragraph under your first subheading, The Experience of North West Ireland, describes the beautiful webbing by veil web spiders. Internet sources refrain from giving me any indication of how that arachnid looks and to what name he/she ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023

The Paranormal

There are so many issues wrapped up in this comment that I would need to do much reflection, and it is worth an article which touches on these issues.

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023

After the Election: what now for the United Kingdom?

Cornwall was involved in a war with the English kingdom of Wessex in the late first millenium and lost, so it was absorbed into England. Cornish independence would turn back the clock. I live a mile from the border of the Saxon kingdoms of ...

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023

Introducing Northern England

The Irish got everywhere, and there are clear migrant routes from one area to another. My local area has many people whose families came from County Mayo. The reason for this is when one person came to Manchester, for example, others joined ...

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023

Spring again

There are a few trees showing, e.g hawthorn and I think elder. But I would have to look around a bit. We recently saw a nuthatch on a tree in the park. Bumble bees are active, we saw some today when gardening in the park.

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023

England and Scotland: a personal reflection

I know of no etymology for Fleance.

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023

The Paranormal

The first paragraph to your first subheading, The Conceptual Dustbin, considers such varied "paranormal" occurrences as experiencing near-death and recalling past lives. How would analysis and research handle a mix of such occurrences? Would it ...

DerdriuMarriner, on 03/22/2023

Alderley Edge: Woods, Wizards and Mines

Jung thought that the mythical consciousness is common to the whole human species, and thus similar ideas arise in different places.. There are localized variants across the world, for example there are several variants of Cinderella.

frankbeswick, on 03/22/2023